Early BritainT. Fisher Unwin, 1889 - 382 pages |
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Page 47
... Caligula forty years before . 2 " No one , " says Tacitus , speaking of a time ten years later , " had in these days a greater military reputation than Suetonius . ” VI . BOADICEA . No details have been preserved for.
... Caligula forty years before . 2 " No one , " says Tacitus , speaking of a time ten years later , " had in these days a greater military reputation than Suetonius . ” VI . BOADICEA . No details have been preserved for.
Page 67
... legions themselves . Works of peace were briskly But in later times , when Britain becomes England , the Lowlands of Scotland as far as the Firth of Forth are included . carried on , roads constructed , towns built and enlarged.
... legions themselves . Works of peace were briskly But in later times , when Britain becomes England , the Lowlands of Scotland as far as the Firth of Forth are included . carried on , roads constructed , towns built and enlarged.
Page 86
... later . Paullus , surnamed Catena , a notary of the Court , was sent by Constantius II . to regulate its affairs , after the repression of the re- bellion , and is said to have been guilty of many exactions and cruelties . Meanwhile the ...
... later . Paullus , surnamed Catena , a notary of the Court , was sent by Constantius II . to regulate its affairs , after the repression of the re- bellion , and is said to have been guilty of many exactions and cruelties . Meanwhile the ...
Page 87
... later we hear of the great general Stilicho winning victories over the Picts in Britain . It seems , however , probable that he never actually landed in the island , but that the report of his approach was sufficient to make the ...
... later we hear of the great general Stilicho winning victories over the Picts in Britain . It seems , however , probable that he never actually landed in the island , but that the report of his approach was sufficient to make the ...
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... later introduction . In Early English it may almost be said not to exist . In the languages of Italy , Spain , and France , this Latin element occupies a quite different position ; it is the foundation of them , not an alien clement ...
... later introduction . In Early English it may almost be said not to exist . In the languages of Italy , Spain , and France , this Latin element occupies a quite different position ; it is the foundation of them , not an alien clement ...
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afterwards Alfred Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Archbishop army Athelstan attack Author battle Bede Bishop Bretwalda Britain British Britons brother Cæsar called camp Canute Carausius Caswallon cavalry chief Christian Church cloth coast command conquest Crown 8vo Danes Danish daughter death defeated Demy 8vo died dominions Dunstan Earl East Anglia edition Edmund Edric Edward Egbert Emperor enemy England English king Ethelbald Ethelbert Ethelred Ethelwulf fight fled fleet force fought Gaul Godwin hand Harold Harold Hardrada hear held Hengist invaders island Kent King's kingdom land legions London married Mercia monastery native nobles Norman Normandy Northmen Northumbria Pagans peace Penda plunder prince probably ravaged reign Roman Rome sailed says the Chronicler seems sent ships slain soldiers story Suetonius Sussex Sweyn Tacitus Thames throne told took Tostig town tribes troops victory Vortigern Wales wall Welsh Wessex West Saxons William William of Malmesbury
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Page 217 - But those things which I met with, either of the days of Ine my kinsman, or of Offa, king of the Mercians, or of Ethelbert, who first among the English race received baptism, those which seemed to me the rightest, those I have here gathered together, and rejected the others.
Page 158 - Go on quickly, I know not how long I shall hold out, and whether my Maker will not soon take me away.
Page 112 - Beda's list comprises Ella of Sussex, Ceawlin of Wessex, Ethelbert of Kent, Redwald of East Anglia, and Edwin, Oswald, and Oswy, of Northumbria. THE SAXON ERA.
Page 160 - Receive my head into your hands, for it is a great satisfaction to me to sit facing my holy place, where I was wont to pray, that I may also, sitting, call upon my Father ! And thus, on the pavement of his little cell, singing : ' Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; ' when he had named the Holy Ghost, he breathed his last, and so departed to the heavenly kingdom.
Page 157 - ... nights and days, From Heaven to Hell, where the Lord changed them all To Devils, because they his Deed and Word Refused to worship. Therefore in worse light Under the earth beneath, Almighty God Had placed them triumphless in the swart HelL There evening, immeasurably long, Brings to each fiend renewal of the fire; Then comes, at dawn, the east wind keen with frost Its dart, or fire continual, torment sharp, The punishment wrought for them they must bear.